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Almost 200 years ago, Louisa Catherine Adams became the first and only foreign-born first lady to claim the title when her husband John Quincy Adams took office in 1825. In a strange historic...
Louisa Catherine Adams ( née Johnson; February 12, 1775 – May 15, 1852) was the first lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 during the presidency of John Quincy Adams, her husband. She was born in England and raised in France. Her father was an influential American merchant, and she was regularly introduced to prominent Americans.
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Dec 16, 2009 · Getty Images / Fine Art / Contributor. Louisa Adams (1775-1852) was an American first lady (1825-1829) and the wife of John Quincy Adams, a U.S. Congressman and the sixth president of the United ...
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Feb 12, 2021 · February 12, 2021. By Sara Martin, Editor in Chief, The Adams Papers. On 8 July 1801 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams stepped aboard the ship America in Hamburg. She was ill, worried for the son she birthed less than three months earlier, and sailing toward an America she knew only as “the land of my Fathers.”
Aug 15, 2018 · Home. Topics. U.S. Presidents. How the First Foreign-Born First Lady Tackled Her Critics. Louisa Adams did not step foot on American soil before her 26th birthday—the same age as the second...
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May 11, 2024 · Louisa Adams was an American first lady (182–52), the wife of John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States. She was the first first lady born aboard. Learn more about Adams’s life, including her role in her husband’s election and her time as first lady.
Exacerbating the situation was the general unhappy tenor of the Adams administration, doomed early on by the close 1824 election and questions of its legitimacy. While Louisa Adams had embraced the role of "campaign manager," she disliked her position as First Lady and called her new home "a prison."
